Indigenous Oral Histories & Disaster Preparedness Knowledge Beth Pratt-Sitaula CEETEP Workshop

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Coastal Cascadia Oral Histories Source locations of accounts of earthquake-tsunami stories. Recorded (Ludwin et al 2005)

Coastal Cascadia Oral Histories Oral-history-estimated event time of 1690 AD Tree-ring & Japanese-record estimated event time of January , 9 pm

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Langi village, Simeulue Island, Indian Ocean Account by tsunami geologist, Lori Dengler of Cal State Humboldt

Thoughts & ideas Mythic stories: Timeless/long-term region-wide stories that describe a restless earth and ocean Oral histories: Accounts that record specific event/s (sometimes centuries-old) Preparedness: Strong advice on how to live more safely in a geologically active region

Thoughts & ideas “Shoalwater people believed in the spirituality of all existence, and the individual human spirit in its many aspects was considered an integral part of this world- view. In fact, it was believed that many plants and animals and even inanimate forms, like boulders and landscape features, were once human…” (Heritage Committee Shoalwater, 1984) Local tribal communities may have libraries, speakers, or additional resources for your area

Ainkenhead, G. and Michell, H., 2011, Bridging cultures: Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing nature. Pearson. pp 196. Bohan, H., 2009, The People of Cascadia: Pacific Northwest Native American History. Heidi Bohan. pp 180. Coyote Mentoring, Wilderness Awareness School. Accessed October 13, 2013http://wildernessawareness.org/program/coyote-mentoring/ Dengler, L., 2011, My Word: Surviving by learning from experience. Times-Standard, Eureka, CA (March 26). Heritage Committee, 1984, The Shoalwater Bay Traveling Exhibit: Heritage at a Glance. Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, pp. 29. Losey, R. J., 2005, Earthquakes and tsunami as elements of environmental disturbance on the Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v 24, p Losey, R. J., 2000, Oral tradition of earthquakes and tsunamis on the Central Cascadia Coast: Variation of account and relations to historically observed patterns across the Northwest Coast. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Coquille Cultural Preservation Conference, p Ludwin R. S. et. al., 2005, Dating the 1700 Cascadia earthquake: Great coastal earthquakes in Native stories. Seismological Research Letters, v 76, n 2, p McMillan, A. D. and Hutchinson, I., 2002, When the mountain dwarfs danced: Aboriginal traditions of paleoseismic events along the Cascadia Subduction Zone of Western North America. Ethnohistory, v 49, n 1, p Phillips, P. W, 2007, Tsunamis and floods in Coos Bay mythology. Oregon Historical Quarterly, v 108, n 2, p Semken, S, et. al., 2009, Factors that influence sense of place as a learning outcome and assessment measures of place-based geoscience teaching. Electronic Journal of Science Education, v 13, n 2, p Semken, S., & Butler Freeman, C., 2008, Sense of place in the practice and assessment of place-based science teaching. Science Education, V 92, v Thorton, T. F., 2008, Being and Place Among the Tlingit. UW Press. pp 247. References

How would you use oral histories and native stories with your learners?